miriam cooke

Islamic Feminism Before and After September 11 (2002)

With Saving Brown Women as the introduction, this article elaborates on the resurfacing of the fight for women’s rights after 9/11. When the Taliban became the enemy, their treatment of women was brought to attention once again. But Afghan women, in addition to their sisters in the Muslim world, had begun to declare their jihad and fight back against their subjection and the expectation often found in societies based on religion that women will be submissive.

Islamic Feminism Before and After September 11